Abram Room,A Strict Young Man, and the 1936 Campaign against Formalism in Soviet Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4210140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Belodubrovskaya (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-333 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0037677900001443 |
| OpenAlex | W2568498443 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article addresses the aesthetic history and banning of Abram Room'sStrogii iunosha(A strict young man, 1936) in the context of the 1936 campaign against formalism and naturalism in Soviet art. I show that the film's experimental style was not the cause of its banning and argue that the antiformalism campaign was a political rather than aesthetic event. What the campaign demanded was a shift in mode, from form centered to theme centered, and it was this disruptive shift that rendered Soviet cinema unproductive after 1936
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Formalism (music · Literature · Movie theater · Naturalism · Political science · Politics · Style (visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · European history and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |